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Defense News: Indian AF Seeks 20 Hawk Advanced Jet Trainers

NEW DELHI — BAE Systems of the United Kingdom has been asked by the Indian Air Force (IAF) to supply 20 more Hawk Advanced Jet Trainers (AJTs) at a cost of about $500 million.

“BAE Systems has received a Request for Proposal (RFP) from Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) for a potential order to supply products and services for the manufacture of 20 Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) aircraft,” said the BAE Systems statement.

Earlier, BAE contracted the sale of 66 Hawk trainers in 2004 and 57 additional Hawk trainers in 2010. If the latest order is contracted, the total numbers of Hawk trainers supplied to India would be 143. The order for the purchase of 57 Hawk aircraft was signed during the 2010 visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to New Delhi.

The 20 Hawk AJTs will replace the Kiran MkII aircraft with the Indian Air Force, which were grounded last year...............

mlc

Remind me again how many the UK have operational!!

Ogre

Seeing as Hawk production at Brough has effectively ceased to exist, the only place the IAF will get their Hawks built is under license at HAL, in India.

So Indian money paying for Indian workers, with a cut for BAE

Leon Jabachjabicz

So will HAL produce the Hawks to replace the Red Arrows' T1s? If indeed there are to be any replacements?

Bob Viking

Do keep up fellas. BAE will be building more Hawks as we speak for the RSAF.
BV

Bob Viking

Well if you believe the news (and BAE) they'll be built in the UK.
At Brough.
BV
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Rigga

Hawk production to ramp up at Warton?

Plenty of (aero)space there...

Dengue_Dude

VERY unlikely to be built at Brough, more likely to be Warton, especially as Typhoon production is a little slow.

Just This Once...

Why is Typhoon slow, I thought we were trying to accelerate our build up?